Adobe’s e-signature service to go bi-cloud: Adds Azure to AWS

Adobe is taking its “Sign” electronic signature service into Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in addition to its current arrangement that sees the service run in Amazon’s cloud. Sign is an electronic signature service that allows users to sign documents by scrawling their sign on a screen or with a mouse, then using that signature in …

[Anonymous Coward]

Just the Fax, Ma'am

As is true with so many of Adobe's "improvements" on PDF, I've never managed to make the e-sign thing work. Inevitably we wind up printing, signing, and faxing the form back.

And don't get me started on fillable forms that can't be saved without losing the data you've entered.

[TheVogon]

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.

[revilo]

quid pro quo

Does anybody seriously believe that this gives e-signatures

"the same legal force as a pen and ink signature". Really?

The track record of Adobe in DRM is miserable. With watermarking

or print restrictions, it is even pathetic. There

was a time, when a simple unix "convert", a OCR or print to a file would remove

restrictions. Still today searching for "removing encryption from PDF" gives

many methods which work. Having e-signatures stored on multiple clouds

does not convince. It might add a "performance boost" but also complexity

and less security and accountability. What immediately explains the spin is

that "Adopting Azure" gives Adobe a "quid pro quo" for Office integration.